Re: bmp

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

>Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
>: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>: >     Besides, I did not know that you can move files from PC to GS on
>: >Zip disk! How is this done?
>
>: Using the MUG! Desk Accessory.  You can use it to read your
>: Windows PC formatted Zip disks, VFAT and all.  ;-)
>
>: Just pop the disk into the PC, copy files using Windows 95
>: or DOS from the PC hard drive onto the Zip disk, take the
>: Zip disk to the IIGS, now from WITHIN AN APPLICATION
>: OTHER THAN FINDER (because Finder will try to format
>: the PC Zip disk) open the Zip disk with the MUG! desk
>: accessory and copy the files to a ProDOS of HFS volume.
>: That's all it takes.
>
>There is an MS-DOS FST in GS/OS 6.0.1.  Won't it at least recognize the
>disk as a PC ZIP disk (even though it may be Win95 formatted) so that you
>can then work the magic with MUG! without having to worry about GS/OS
>trying to reformat the disk?

Sadly, Apple seemed to have left the MS-DOS FST only half
done.  It does not recognize any volume above 2.88MB in
size (if you have a PC Transporter you can test this by trying
to format the IIGS RAM disk set to various sizes using
MS-DOS).  Thus, you must launch a program other than
Finder in order to avoid the Initialize dialog box.  When that
box opens, you can't access the desk accessories menu and
are thus locked out from MUG!.